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"Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities."
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"Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal."
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"Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans."
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"One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife."
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"I play, like, 12 instruments. Guitar, piano, harmonica, African drums... I'm working on mastering the accordion."
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"I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist."
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"There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is."
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"The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival."
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"There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago."
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"When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic."
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"I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music."
Music
"Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking."
People
"I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes."
America
"I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it."
Heart
"I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South."
Thought
"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."
Music
"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
American
"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."
Business
"If I could read it, I could play it."
Play
"People don't slip. Time catches up with them."
Time
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